NATO’s Kosovo Air War Redux
By Stephen Gowans NATO’s military intervention in Libya began, in theory, as an enforcement of a no-fly zone to protect civilians but has in reality morphed into an attack on civilian targets to...
View ArticleMilitary Interventions: Progressive vs. Imperialist
By Stephen Gowans Wars have almost always been highly devastating affairs, with dire consequences in ruined and destroyed lives, as well as in the destruction of economies, farms, factories, housing...
View ArticleIn Libya, Lies and Imperialism on the Verge of Victory
By Stephen Gowans Nato’s mandate in Libya was to protect civilians, not to take sides in a civil war between secular nationalists on one side and Al Qaeda Islamists and CIA backed-exiles on the other....
View ArticleLibya: Imperialism and the Left
By Stephen Gowans While the class character of regimes under siege by Western powers is often explored in analyses of imperialist interventions and is frequently invoked to justify them, it neither...
View ArticleGaddafi’s Oppressions
By Stephen Gowans My local newspaper informed me this morning that with the killing of Muammar Gaddafi the “Libyan people can finally turn the page on 42 years of vicious oppression.” The oppression...
View ArticleAl-Qaeda’s Air Force
Some Canadian military officers in private...referred to the NATO jets bombing Gadhafi’s troops as “al-Qaeda’s air force” Canadian fighter pilots “flew 946 sorties and dropped almost 700 bombs” in last...
View ArticlePromoting Plutocracy: U.S.-Led Regime Change Operations and the Assault on...
January 11, 2015 PROMOTING PLUTOCRACY By Stephen Gowans Chapter 1. What the West’s Position on Iran Reveals about its Foreign Policy Chapter 2. Democracy Chapter 3. Foreign Policy and Profits Chapter...
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